Re: CE vs Embedded XP

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From: Carl (carl_at_purpleglobe.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:37:12 -0800

 From personal experience, I recommend you go with windows ce 5.0.
Unlike windows xp embedded, it just creates a bin file that you can then
put in a 32 mb flash drive to boot off of. It'll then be loaded all in
ram for you. It essentially behaves like firmware in that you can cut
power to it and have it boot back into the ce desktop without any damage
to the file system. The reason for this is because it is read only. So
once booted up, any changes made to the ce system aren't saved. No
chance of file corruption then. Unlike windows xp embedded where if u
pull the plug and boot it back up, after doing that for a few times,
some files might be corrupt then.

But the advantage of windows xp embedded is that you can essentially run
your application that runs in regular windows in windows xp embedded
with no changes required. Windows ce 5.0 on the other hand, takes a bit
longer to develop an application for. As it requires c code and for it
to be all unicode.

iesoft wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New to the MSDN Embedded groups...
>
> I am trying to decide between CE and Embedded XP for a project I am on.
> I've read through much of the MSDN Embedded website and I see references to
> the 500 components CE has versus the 12000 components Embedded XP has, but
> what I cannot find is the specifics of the 500 components CE has versus.
>
> I'd like to review that list for technologies that I require for this
> project, so I can make a decision on whether or not to use CE.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -Vin

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